Brocker I 826
Biopolitics/Agamben:Poweranalyses that make use of the concept of "biopolitics" focus on the concept of life - and not on the citizen, the subject, the subserviant - and thus focus on the growing current "politicization of life".
Brocker I 827
Agambennowcombines Foucault's shifts to biopolitics (1) with Hannah Arendt's shifts to the concept of life. (2)
AgambenVsFoucault: he has failed to shift his field of activity to the policies of the great totalitarian states of the 20th century. (3)
AgambenVsArendt: their analysis of totalitarian states lacks the aspect of biopolitics.
Solution/Agamben: Agamben brings the two strands together in the terms "naked" and "holy" life. See Holiness/Agamben, Terminology/Agamben, Life/Agamben, Humans/Agamben.

Brocker I 681
Liberalism/BarberVsLiberalism/Barber:Thesis:in American democracy reigns a "lobbyist policy" "politics of images", a "politics of mass society" instead of genuine citizen participation. (written in 1984). (1) Liberalism or the concept of representation associated with liberalism, which destroys participation, was responsible for this. (2)
Brocker I 682
LiberalDemocracy/Barber:focuses on individual rights and an electoral government.
Problem: liberalism misunderstood "politics as keeping predators".
Brocker I 683
Thecoreof liberalism is an instrumental understanding of democracy. Politics is then there to protect individuals against external interference and to achieve this protection in such a way that it is compatible with the supposedly unchanging characteristics of individuals. Liberalism tends to summarize the characteristics of individuals in pessimistic descriptions.
Brocker I 684
Liberalism/Barber:thepre-conceptual framework is characterized by ideas such as "property", "territory", "borders", "sanctions", "freedom" and "power". Aspects such as human interdependence, mutual assistance, cooperation, membership, brotherhood, community and citizenship are neglected. (3)
Method/Liberalism/Barber: the methodology of liberalism is a "Cartesian" one, i.e. knowledge is gained through the application of a reliable method.
BarberVsLiberalism: Politics is not the application of truth to the problem of human relationships, but the application of human relationships to the problem of truth. (4)
Brocker I 685
BarberVsLiberalDemocracy:thesis: liberalism creates a type of person whose psyche is susceptible to the totalitarian temptation by throwing the human back on itself. (Haus: here parallels to Hannah Arendt's thinking are revealed.) Nevertheless:
BarberVsArendt/BarberVsStrauss, Leo: these are nostalgic theories. (5)

Brocker I 366
Modernism/Polis/WellmerVsArendt/Wellmer:Inthe reception of Arendt's Vita Activa it has repeatedly been critically noted that it neglects social problems and their significance for the political space, places the polis as a model of political communities, so to speak as an archetype, and ignores the fact that modernism has produced an irreversible intertwining of the social and the political. (1)